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The Quiet One

United States

1948

65 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
English
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DIR Sidney Meyers

PROD Janice Loeb, William Levitt

SCR Sidney Meyers, James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb

DP Richard Bagley, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb

CAST Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper, Sadie Stockton, Estelle Evans, Paul Baucum, Sidney Meyers

Venice (Best Film): International Award

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The story of a lonely young boy growing up in Harlem. Using a semi-documentary technique, the film-makers realistically capture the hostile environment which leads the boy to delinquency. The youth is sent to Wiltwyck School for rehabilitation, where a psychiatrist and counselor try to break through the wall of silence which the boy uses to hide his fear and bitterness. —IMDb

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Duncan Jones

12Nov11

Combining mimesis of the objective documentary with the expressionistic perspective of a silent hero, this film's ambitious technique overcomes its technical failings. The amalgamation of the dreamlike shimmer of the school and the blackness of the fairytale countryside with the grey realism of the city may create a heightened atmosphere, but an emotional veracity is maintained, compassionate as it is unsentimental.

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